Temples of Delight
by Barbara Trapido
- Used
- fair
- Paperback
- Condition
- Fair
- ISBN 10
- 0140138544
- ISBN 13
- 9780140138542
- Seller
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Wellington, Auckland, New Zealand
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About This Item
Penguin. Fair. 181mm / 110mm. Paperback. 1991. 360 pages. Cover worn. Text tanned<br>Jem McCrail is a fantastica l godsend to the timid young Alice Pilling. Like a dropped acorn, she appears halfway through the week, halfway through the term, and halfway through Miss Aldridge's Silent Reading Hour. Through the doorway she barely clears, wearing clothes like the cowshed-c rouching ... .
Synopsis
Jem is a joyful mystery to Alice. She is something to give thanks for. And whens he disappears from Alice's life, as suddenly as she entered it, a whirl of glamour, subversion and literary references, Alice is left bereft. But then she meets Giovanni, presumptuous and hectoring, passionate and beautiful, who leads her back to her childhood friend and the mystery and chaos still surrounding her. Alice finds herself being seduced all over again ...
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Details
- Bookseller
- bookexpress.co.nz (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1261d
- Title
- Temples of Delight
- Author
- Barbara Trapido
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0140138544
- ISBN 13
- 9780140138542
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Place of Publication
- Harmondsworth
- Date Published
- 1991
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....